아름다움과 파멸, 재현된 미적 진리의 두 모습:키츠, 달리, 원폭, 예술의 종언?

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Artists capture a scene of life in a particular space, represent the scene in
the form of art, and sublimate the captured moment of beauty to a sate of
the eternal now. A work of art will continue to exist forever unless
destroyed by oxidation, and consequently remain as the truth of beauty.
Beauty that transcends time and space, it is what a Romantic poet John
Keats calls the ‘truth Art’ that ‘all ye need to know’ in his poem “Ode on
a Grecian Urn.” On the other hand, art works as the products of the times
reflect the dark side of human history and memory as well as beautiful
moments. Disasters such as war and disease are included here. The Second
World War, especially, left us a memory of Holocaust and ‘the fear of
nuclear’ which is stamped into the pictures of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí captures the moment of
atomic bombing on canvas. Inspired by the atomic bombings on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in 1945, Dalí painted Three Sphinxes of Bikini which
represents what the painter witnessed in person, that is, the nuclear
explosion tests conducted on the coral island of Bikini in 1946. In the
myth, Sphinx symbolizes ‘wisdom’ but also has the meaning of ‘strangler’.
The painting projects the contradictory image of Sphinxes to humans, the
hero of paradox who claims to be the most reasonable species on Earth
and at the same time tightens his or her own throat with inhumane atrocity
of nuclear bombing. This aesthetic representation of a disastrous moment
declares, ‘destruction is the truth.’
The A-bomb scene captured in the painting presents itself even here
and now, despite half a century’s gap. It makes the ruined life and trauma
of the Bikini islanders remain as the truth which has stopped and therefore
continues forever towards the eternal now, constantly reminding us of the
past memories. Considering the frailty of us humans who are helpless in
the destructive power of disasters, the moment of destruction captured in
the painting becomes a true insight to the dark reality. In Three Sphinxes
of Bikini, Dalí reaches the insight that ‘destruction is the truth’ and that it
is ‘all ye need to know.’ Likewise, Beauty, sublimated by Keats as the
truth of art, relinquishes its position to Destruction which is sublimated by
Dalí as the of art. As a result, we are facing the double edge of truth,
beauty and destruction.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 글
• Ⅱ. 키츠 [희랍 항아리에 부치는 송시]
• Ⅲ. 달리 <비키니 섬의 세 스핑크스>
• Ⅳ. 나가는 글: 예술의 종언?
• 인용문헌
• Abstract

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